The mystical world of video...

[D. Michael McIntyre]

Looks like QDVDAuthor is the closest to what I'm looking for.  More or less.  
At least it looks somewhat promising.

Of course it literally crashes every third operation I try to perform.

This stuff looks like where Rosegarden was when I got there back in 2001.  
Tantalizing, encouraging, but woefully useless; rather like a rubber candy 
bar.

Problem is MIDI hasn't changed much in years, but DVDs are already on the way 
out, and our tools don't seem likely to be keeping up with the next 
generation stuff when they can't even handle the old generation stuff without 
soiling themselves constantly.

After a couple hours of endless crashes, I seem to be on the verge of actually 
producing something with QDVDAuthor.  Who knows.  Maybe it will finally work, 
and I will quit whining and go do something else.

Like start the wiki page with my findings, in the hopes that some expert will 
come along and point out everything I got wrong and/or maligned due to having 
an unusually bad first taste.
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D. Michael McIntyre